Word: classman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason that they all crop up out of sight. Chief among these is that the published accounts of a race have little, if anything, to do with its actual conduct. Last Saturday the scribes huddled on the way down to the starting line and selected a cleancut Annapolis second classman as official Recorder of The Stroke. This gentleman stepped to the poop deck of the lobster boat that the HAA had thoughtfully hired, cleared his throat, and made the following announcement...
...I.C.4-A. (for Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America) track championship at Madison Square Garden over runners-up Yale and 44 other colleges. Best individual performance of the meet: an American indoor-record heave of 60 ft. 7¾ in. by rawboned Jim Scholtz, a West Point first-classman, with the 35-lb. weight...
...current Annapolis anecdote concerns an unreconstructed first-classman (senior) who hazed an ex-paratrooper plebe, told him: "Mr. So-&-So, this Academy will make a man of you yet." Replied the plebe evenly: "Mac, I've killed better men than...
...aging, horse-bowed legs sometimes let him down in battle. When they did he would sit down for a spell. His men knew, and they loved him for his nerve. It was soldier's talk that "Ike" Eisenhower, a West Point plebe when the Colonel was a first-classman, had something to do with keeping Paddy up front. The arrangement suited old Paddy right down to the ground. France, beamed the ruddy Colonel, was his "graduation exercise" as a footslogger...
...Leisure. At West Point, football is the least important of Cas's activities. He takes ten subjects, required of every first classman (senior). He has the high honor and responsibilities of a cadet lieutenant. Like a third of his class (including four others from Army's starting line-up), he has crammed pilot training into an already crushing 16-hr. daily schedule...